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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
We are born into blankets. They keep us alive and they cover us in death. We pull and tug on blankets to see us through the night or an illness. They shield us in mourning and witness our most intimate pleasures.
Curious, fearless, vulnerable, and critical, Blanket interweaves cultural critique with memoir to cast new light on a ubiquitous object. Kara Thompson reveals blankets everywhere--film, art, geology, disasters, battlefields, resistance, home--and transforms an ordinary thing into a vibrant and vital carrier of stories and secrets, an object of inheritance and belonging, a companion to uncover.
Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
We are born into blankets. They keep us alive and they cover us in death. We pull and tug on blankets to see us through the night or an illness. They shield us in mourning and witness our most intimate pleasures.
Curious, fearless, vulnerable, and critical, Blanket interweaves cultural critique with memoir to cast new light on a ubiquitous object. Kara Thompson reveals blankets everywhere--film, art, geology, disasters, battlefields, resistance, home--and transforms an ordinary thing into a vibrant and vital carrier of stories and secrets, an object of inheritance and belonging, a companion to uncover.
Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
A Note to the Reader
Preface: Convolute
Unfold 1
1. Witness
Unfold 2
2. Folds
Unfold 3
3. Transmission, Extraction
Unfold 4
4. Security
Unfold 5
5. Under Cover
Unfold 6
6. Carriers
Unfold 7
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
List of Figures
Index
Preface: Convolute
Unfold 1
1. Witness
Unfold 2
2. Folds
Unfold 3
3. Transmission, Extraction
Unfold 4
4. Security
Unfold 5
5. Under Cover
Unfold 6
6. Carriers
Unfold 7
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
List of Figures
Index
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Produktdetails
Erscheinungsdatum
20. September 2018
Sprache
englisch
Seitenanzahl
192
Reihe
Object Lessons
Autor/Autorin
Kara Thompson
Herausgegeben von
Christopher Schaberg, Ian Bogost
Verlag/Hersteller
Produktart
kartoniert
Gewicht
179 g
Größe (L/B/H)
165/120/17 mm
ISBN
9781628922653
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There is nothing trivial about this little book. It addresses one ostensibly ordinary object - a blanket - but quickly turns your ideas on their heads . Author Kara Thompson traverses a continent of meanings and implications, focusing on various artworks that use some type of blanket motif, or actual blankets, to illustrate metaphorical blankets, especially ones that deal with death. You will appreciate her brilliant analysis of these artworks and their synthesis with themes of colonialism, subjugation, memory, and survival, which is sensitive and detailed. Entwined through the story is a very personal and vulnerable story, in which Thompson wraps these blankets' abstraction into her individual experience. The book will stay with you for a long time. Seattle Book Review
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